When Matteo Alessi was growing up on the shores of Lake Maggiore, in northern Italy, his home environment was distinctly different from that of his schoolfriends. While they lived surrounded by the traditional Italian bourgeois trappings of ornately carved furniture and heavy drapery, his parents had moved their family in 1981 into a “very unusual” new house. “It was all on one floor and had few walls, but a lot of glass and wood,” Alessi recalls. “It was more Scandinavian than Italian, really. We always liked simple shapes.”
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